"12 and a Half Angry Men" is the sixteenth episode of the eleventh season and the 204th overall episode of the animatedcomedy seriesFamily Guy. It aired on Fox in the United States on March 24, 2013, and is written by Ted Jessup and directed by Pete Michels.[1] In the episode, Mayor Adam West is brought on trial for murder. Brian Griffin is on the jury and tries to clear his name.

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When an aide to Mayor Adam West is found stabbed to death, evidence that the victim attempted to blackmail the Mayor points to Mayor Adam West and he is put on trial for murder. The jury selected for the trial consists of Peter, Brian, Quagmire, Mort Goldman, Tom Tucker, Herbert, Carter, Dr. Hartman, Seamus, Bruce, Carl, and Consuela. Brian is the only one voting "not guilty" and he tries to persuade his fellow jurors that there is a reasonable doubt of the Mayor's guilt. His insistence frustrates the others who do not trust the Mayor because he is a politician. Brian's examination of the evidence leads him to notice the paper the blackmail note was written on matches a love letter he received from Quagmire's transgender father after they had sex. Brian agrees that if no one is convinced of the possibility of Mayor West's innocence then he will change his vote, but the vote comes up with an agreement from Herbert that there is a chance of innocence. The other jurors just want to go home. Bruce calls for a break and Quagmire berates Brian for not going along when he had the chance.

Back in the jury room, Brian questions the witness' testimony of seeing the crime during an orgy. Quagmire tries to prove that it could really happen, but finds that Brian may be on to something when his demonstration proves that the witness' position could not have allowed her to look out a window during the orgy, admitting that Brian was right. The jury finds itself dead locked at 6-6 and Tom Tucker still holds out for a guilty verdict until Dr. Hartman convinces him otherwise. Peter changes his vote after he finds out what "guilty" means. Later, with just Carter as the lone holdout for guilty, Brian challenges his thought until Carter reveals that he felt betrayed by the Mayor as he always endorsed West and was not allowed to sink most of Quahog for his real estate developing plans. Cater breaks down into tears and gives in on his guilty vote. Acquitted of the crime, Mayor Adam West resumes his duties. Back at the Griffin home, Stewie is unsatisfied that they proved Mayor Adam West was innocent and reveals that more murders have occurred, proving that a maniac is still on the loose. The lights go out, prompting Stewie to say, "And we're dead."

The episode received a 2.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and was watched by a total of 5.16 million viewers. This made it the most watched show on Fox's Animation Domination line-up that night, beating The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and The Cleveland Show.[2] The episode was met with mixed reviews from critics. Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B–, saying "Every beat of the 12 Angry Men homage shows up exactly when it should, but that reliability doesn’t come off as lazy, since at least some work has to go into creating all the little twists, and whoever’s responsible for Quagmire’s orgy recreation certainly had a bit of time on their hands."[3] Mark Trammell of TV Equals wrote, "I don't know if I can truthfully say that '12 and a Half Angry Men' worked entirely, but it wasn't an embarrassment, either, I suppose. As those of you who got the allusion from the title already know, the main plot line was taken from the classic Twelve Angry Men, a stage play that later became the source for several movies."[4]

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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town

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The Cleveland Show
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The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families consisting of parents Cleveland Brown and Donna Tubbs and their children Cleveland Brown, similar to Family Guy, it exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. The series was conceived by MacFarlane in 2007 after developing the two animated series Family Guy and American Dad. for the Fox Network, the series originally aired from September 27,2009, to May 19,2013, for a total of four seasons and 88 episodes. The Cleveland Show was nominated for one Annie Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, the series was canceled after its fourth season. Cleveland has since returned to Family Guy, accompanied by the rest of the Brown-Tubbs family, Seth MacFarlane initially conceived The Cleveland Show in 2007 while working on his other two animated series, Family Guy and American Dad. The Cleveland Show first appeared on the development slate at Fox in early 2008, under no official name for the pilot, on May 5,2008, MacFarlane and 20th Century Fox Television inked a deal. The pilot was named The Cleveland Show in May 2008, when it appeared on the slate for the 2008–09 television season. Shortly after a report that King of the Hill just ended, leaving air time for The Cleveland Show, MacFarlane and Henry pitched a 22-minute pilot to Fox which aired on September 27,2009, but had been leaked on the internet in June 2009. Even before the episode premiered, the show had already been renewed for a 22-episode second season. After the first season of the aired, it was given the green light to start production. On June 10,2010, less than three weeks into the first seasons summer hiatus, it was announced that Fox was ordering a third season, a fourth season was announced on May 9,2011, just a few days before the second season concluded. Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry and Richard Appel served as producers on the series since the first season. Mike Henry voices two of the main characters, Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs. The voice of Cleveland was developed originally for Family Guy by Henry after being influenced by one of his best friends who had a distinct regional accent. For the voice of Rallo, Henry has stated that he had created the voice over twenty years ago. Sanaa Lathan voices Donna Tubbs, the wife of Cleveland, in developing the character, Lathan said that the producers wanted her to be educated, but to have some edge. Prior to voicing Donna, Lathan had only one other voice credit in a relatively low-budget film entitled The Golden Blaze. In addition to the show, she primarily worked as an actress in such films as Alien vs. Predator, Love & Basketball

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Family Guy (season 5)
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Family Guys fifth season first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 10,2006 to May 20,2007 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It premiered with the episode Stewie Loves Lois and finished with Meet the Quagmires, the series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and Brian, the family pet, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the season were David Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith. The showrunner for the season was Goodman. The season received a reception from critics, who cited a lack of original writing. More positive assessments were that the series saw no sign of tiring, Season five contains some of the series most acclaimed episodes, including Barely Legal, Airport 07 and No Chris Left Behind. The fifth season won an Annie Award at the 35th Annie Awards for storyboarding and was nominated for three more, including writing and voice acting and it also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. The Volume Five DVD box set was released in Region 1 on September 18,2007, Region 2 on October 15,2007, thirteen of the eighteen episodes are included in the volume. The remaining five episodes of the season were released on the Volume Six DVD box set, released in Region 1 on October 21,2008, Region 2 on November 10,2008, Production for the fifth season began in 2005, during the airing of the fourth season. The season was produced by series regulars David A. Goodman, Seth MacFarlane, Chris Sheridan. In addition, Goodman served as showrunner throughout the season, No new writers were hired after the conclusion of the fourth season. Julius Wu and Brian Iles received their first directing credits this season, Mike Kim, James Purdum, Cyndi Tang, Greg Colton, Pete Michels, Zac Moncrief, John Holmquist and future Blue Harvest director Dominic Polcino all also stayed with the show from the previous season. This season, however, was director Dan Povenmires last season before leaving the show to create his own series, entitled Phineas and Ferb, the main cast consisted of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and Mike Henry. New recurring characters were introduced in season five. The character of Jillian Fisher, Brians new dimwitted girlfriend, was introduced in the episode Whistle While Your Wife Works and she provided an ironic counterpoint to Brians intellectualism. Her final character personality was designed to be a blonde, a bulimic cheerleader. Her voice would later play upon the bulimic cheerleader element, with actress Drew Barrymore providing the voice of Jillian in eight episodes, five of which would be in season five. Other guest stars who made appearances as recurring characters from previous seasons were Carrie Fisher as Peters boss, Angela

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Bob's Burgers
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Bobs Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belchers – parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, the show was conceived by Bouchard after he developed Home Movies. It is produced and distributed in association with 20th Century Fox Television, the series debuted on January 9,2011. While reviews for the first season were mixed, feedback for subsequent seasons has been more positive. The series premiere, Human Flesh, drew in 9.38 million viewers, making it the series premiere of the season. Reruns began airing on Cartoon Networks late night programming block Adult Swim on June 23,2013. A comic book based on the show, published by Dynamite Entertainment, began in September 2014. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Bobs Burgers as one of the top 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time, the series has been nominated for several awards, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 2012 and 2013, before it won the award in 2014. On October 7,2015, Fox renewed the series for seventh and eighth production cycles, the seventh season premiered on September 25,2016. The show centers on the Belcher family—Bob, Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, Bobs Burgers is located in a green two-floor building that features an apartment on the second floor where Bob and his family reside. The restaurant is sandwiched between two commercial buildings, one of which houses Its Your Funeral Home and Crematorium, whose owner Mort is a regular at the restaurant. Success is not easy, as Bob must compete with several other eateries for business and his biggest rival is Jimmy Pestos Pizzeria, which is located right across the street and does far more business than Bobs Burgers does. In addition to their business rivalry, Bob and Jimmy Pesto are unable to stand each other personally, Jimmy particularly enjoys humiliating Bob, such as when he got the high score on an arcade machine Bob had rented and taunted him by putting BOB SUX as his initials. He is Tinas love interest, although he does not always realize that she loves him and it is occasionally unclear how Jimmy Jr. feels toward Tina. He approves of her erotic fiction, starring himself, in Bad Tina, but tends to forget they are dating in favor of time spent with best friend and wrestling buddy, Zeke. Bobs restaurant also has seen its share of bad luck. For example, in the opening, the property falls victim to a fire, an infestation of vermin. In spite of all this, Bob does have a small but loyal group of customers, including the aforementioned Mort and Teddy

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Family Guy (season 7)
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Family Guys seventh season first aired on the Fox network in sixteen episodes from September 28,2008 to May 17,2009 before being released as two DVD box sets and syndicated. The animated television series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, who reside in the town of Quahog, the show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family. The executive producers for the season were David Zuckerman, MacFarlane, Danny Smith, David Goodman. The season included episodes from the sixth season, which was cut short due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. It received a reception from critics, the more-negative reviews criticizing the overuse of cutaways. The seventh season contains some of the series most acclaimed episodes and controversial episodes like 420, the seventh season was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, making Family Guy the first animated series to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones in 1961. The Volume Seven DVD box set was released in Region 1 on June 16,2009, Region 2 on November 2,2009, nine of the sixteen episodes are included in this volume. The remaining seven episodes of the season were released on the Volume Eight DVD box set in Region 1 on June 15,2010, Region 2 on November 1,2010 and Region 4 on June 15,2011. The season premiered September 28,2008 with the episode Love, during the sixth season of the show, episodes of Family Guy and American Dad. were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane sided with the Writers Guild, official production of Family Guy was halted for most of December 2007 and intermittent periods afterwards. Due to this, most sixth-season episodes had to be pushed back to one, this left the sixth season with only twelve episodes. David Zuckerman, MacFarlane, Danny Smith, David Goodman and Chris Sheridan were the producers for the season. Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Mark Hentemann and Brian Scully were co-executive producers, each wrote one episode, except for Meighan, Sulkin and Chevapravatdumrong. There were nine directors for the sixteen episodes of the season, with Cyndi Tang, Greg Colton, Julius Wu, Brian Iles, Jerry Langford, Peter Shin and James Purdum were supervising directors for the entire season. Walter Murphey composed the music tracks, while Stan Jones edited them. Season seven had a cast of five main actors, MacFarlane voiced Peter Griffin, a blue-collar worker and the patriarch of the Griffin family. Other members of the family include Peters responsible-but-rebellious wife, Lois, their teenage daughter, Meg and their socially-awkward teenage son. Mike Henry voiced the Griffins neighbor Cleveland Brown, the season had a number of secondary characters, including Lori Alan as Diane Simmons, Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown, Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson and Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson

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Family Guy (season 1)
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The first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy aired on Fox from January 31 to May 16,1999, and consisted of seven episodes. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, the executive producers for the first season were David Zuckerman and MacFarlane. The series premiere, Death Has a Shadow, was broadcast directly after Super Bowl XXXIII and was watched by 22.01 million viewers. The series received praise from most critics, particularly I Never Met the Dead Man and Brian, Portrait of a Dog, however some critics disliked the themes of the episodes. The Volume One DVD box set, including all seven episodes and the season, was released in Region 1 on April 15,2003, Region 2 on November 12,2001. The series has since been released in syndication, MacFarlane conceived the idea for Family Guy in 1995, while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. There, he created his thesis film The Life of Larry, which his professor at RISD later submitted to Hanna-Barbera, executives at Fox saw the Larry shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series based on the characters entitled Family Guy. While working on the series, Larry and his dog Steve slowly evolved into Peter and Brian, Seth MacFarlane conceived the idea for Family Guy in 1995 while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. There he created his thesis film The Life of Larry, which his professor at RISD later submitted to Hanna-Barbera, executives at Fox saw the Larry shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series based on the characters entitled Family Guy. Fox proposed that MacFarlane complete a 15-minute short, and gave him a budget of $50,000, several aspects of Family Guy were inspired by the Larry shorts. While working on the series, Larry and Steve slowly evolved into Peter, after the pilot aired, the series was green-lit. The season aired on Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States, David Zuckerman and MacFarlane were the executive producers for the season, the latter also acted as show runner. The producer for the season was Sherry Gunther, with Mike Barker, other producers included Craig Hoffman, Danny Smith, Gary Janetti, and John Riggi. There were six directors for the seven episodes, with Michael DiMartino directing two, Peter Shin acted as the supervising director for the entire season. Walter Murphey composed the music tracks, while Stan Jones edited them. Season one had a cast of four main actors, MacFarlane voiced Peter Griffin, a blue-collar worker and the patriarch of the Griffin family. The familys evil-genius baby Stewie and their pet dog Brian, were also voiced by MacFarlane. Other recurring characters included Carlos Alazraqui as Peters boss Jonathan Weed, cartoonist Butch Hartman voiced several minor characters

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Padma Lakshmi
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Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the Best First Book award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, in 2010, Top Chef won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. Her debut memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate was released on International Womens Day, Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan was born in Madras, India. Her father was a Pfizer executive, and her mother, Vijaya, is a nurse who specialized in oncology. Her parents divorced when she was two, and both later remarried. Lakshmi is her mothers child, but she has a younger paternal half-brother and half-sister. The latter formerly worked as an actress and classical dancer but is now pursuing a career working with children with special needs, in an interview in The Guardian, Lakshmi said, My father had quit his job as an executive at Pfizer to manage her career. That was kind of like rubbing salt in the wound, I didnt understand why he wanted that relationship with her, and not with me. Lakshmis mother moved to the United States to escape the stigma of divorce in India and she grew up shuttling between her grandparents in Chennai and her mother in New York. Her native tongue is Tamil, her parents being Tamil Brahmin Iyers, two days after her discharge from the hospital, she was in a car accident in Malibu, California, which left her with a fractured right hip and a shattered right upper arm. The injury to her arm required surgery, which left her with a 7-inch scar between her elbow and shoulder, as a teenager growing up in Los Angeles, Lakshmi was bullied and endured racial taunts from classmates, which caused her to struggle to overcome internalized self-loathing. Lakshmi graduated from Workman High School in the City of Industry and she is a 1992 graduate of Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she received a BA with Honors, in Theatre Arts. During her time in school, she chose to study abroad in Madrid and she speaks English, Tamil, Hindi, Italian and Spanish. Lakshmis modeling career began at age 21 while studying abroad in Madrid, as she has stated, I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. Im the first one to admit that I was a novelty, Lakshmi was able to pay off her college loans by working as a model and actress. She has modeled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Ralph Lauren and she was a favorite model of the photographer Helmut Newton, whose photographs of her often highlighted the large scar on her right arm. After Newtons endorsement of Lakshmi, she was sought after by other major photographers and designers. Lakshmi has appeared on the covers of Redbook, Vogue India, FHM, Cosmopolitan, LOfficiel India, Asian Woman, Avenue, Industry Magazine, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country, Lakshmi also posed nude for the May 2009 issue of Allure magazine

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Animated cartoon
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Animated cartoons are still created for commercial, educational, and personal purposes to this day. The first animated projection was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888. On 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot and this film is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. His films were not photographed, but drawn directly onto the transparent strip, in 1900, more than 500,000 people had attended these screenings. The first animated projection was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton, in the movie, a cartoonists line drawings of two faces were animated on a blackboard. The two faces smiled and winked, and the man blew smoke in the ladys face, also. The first animated projection in the sense was Fantasmagorie by the French director Émile Cohl in 1908. This was followed by two films, Le Cauchemar du fantoche and Un Drame chez les fantoches, all completed in 1908. One of the very first successful animated cartoons was Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay and it is considered the first example of true character animation. At first, animated cartoons were black-and-white and silent, felix the Cat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit are notable examples. From the 1920s to 1960s, theatrical cartoons were produced in huge numbers, MGM, and UPA were the largest studios producing these 5- to 10-minute shorts. Other studios included Walter Lantz, DePatie-Freleng, Charles Mintz Studios, Famous Studios, the first cartoon to use a soundtrack was in 1926 with Max Fleischers My Old Kentucky Home. However the Fleischers used a De Forest sound system and the sound was not completely synchronized with the film, walt Disneys 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism. Mickey Mousing became a term for any action that was perfectly synchronized with music. The music used is original most of the time, but musical quotation is often employed, animated characters usually performed the action in loops, i. e. drawings were repeated over and over. Although other producers had made films earlier using 2-strip color, Disney produced the first cartoon in 3-strip Technicolor, Flowers and Trees, technicians at the Fleischer studio invented rotoscoping, in which animators trace live action in order to make animation look more realistic. However, rotoscoping made the animation look stiff and the technique was used more for studying human and animal movement. Today, traditional animation uses traditional methods, but is aided by computers in certain areas and this gives the animator new tools not available that could not be achieved using old techniques

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Orgy
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In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests freely engage in open and unrestrained sexual activity or group sex. Some swingers contend that an orgy, as opposed to a sex party, other kinds of sex party may fare less well with this labeling. Participation in an orgy is a sexual fantasy and group sex targeting such consumers is a subgenre in pornographic films. The term is used metaphorically in expressions, such as an orgy of colour or an orgy of destruction to indicate excess. The term orgiastic does not generally connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots, in ancient Greek religion, orgia were ecstatic rites characteristic of the Greek and Hellenistic mystery religions. Unlike public religion, or the religious practices of a household, the mysteries were open only to initiates. Some rites were held at night, orgia were part of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and the cult of Cybele, which involved the castration of her priests in a frenzied trance. Orgia are popularly thought to have involved sex, but, while sexuality and fertility were cultic concerns, bacchanalia Notes Bibliography Adkins, Lesley and Adkins, Roy A. Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece ISBN 0-19-512491-X Alexander, Timothy Jay. Hellenismos Today ISBN 978-1-4303-1427-1 Alexander, Timothy Jay, a Beginners Guide to Hellenismos ISBN 978-1-4303-2456-0 Burnet, John. Early Greek Philosophy ISBN 1-4021-9753-5 Dillon, Matthew, girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion ISBN 0-415-20272-8 Maffesoli, Michel. The shadow of Dionysus, a contribution to the sociology of the orgy ISBN 978-0-7914-1239-8 Persson, Martin

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Family Guy
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Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian. The show is set in the city of Quahog, Rhode Island. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, MacFarlane redesigned the films protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit. Shortly after the season of Family Guy had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series. Adult Swim burned off the episode in 2003, finishing the original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a fourth season, since its debut on January 31,1999,286 episodes of Family Guy have been broadcast. Its fifteenth season began on September 25,2016, Family Guy has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Family Guy has also received criticism, including unfavorable comparisons to The Simpsons. In 2008, MacFarlane confirmed that the cast was interested in producing a feature film, a spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, featuring Cleveland Brown, aired from September 27,2009, to May 19,2013. The Simpsons Guy, an episode with The Simpsons, aired on September 28,2014. Family Guy is a joint production by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television, in 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Guy the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. On May 15,2016, Family Guy was renewed for a fifteenth season, living with the family is their witty, smoking, martini-swilling, sarcastic, English-speaking anthropomorphic dog Brian, though he is still considered a pet in many respects. Recurring characters appear alongside the Griffin family, TV news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa, and Blaccu-Weather meteorologist Ollie Williams also make frequent appearances. Actors Adam West and James Woods guest star as themselves in various episodes, the primary setting of Family Guy is Quahog, a fictional district of Providence, Rhode Island that was founded by Peters ancestor Griffin Peterson. MacFarlane resided in Providence during his time as a student at Rhode Island School of Design, MacFarlane often borrows the names of Rhode Island locations and icons such as Pawtucket and Buddy Cianci for use in the show. MacFarlane, in an interview with a program on WNAC-TV, Channel 64 in Providence, stated that the town is modeled after Cranston

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Family Guy (season 8)
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Family Guys eighth season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 27,2009 to May 23,2010 before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK, the seasons showrunners were Hentemann and Callaghan. The season received a reception from critics, who cited a lack of original writing. More positive assessments revolved around the end of the season. The Volume Eight DVD box set was released in Region 1 on June 15,2010, Region 2 on November 1,2010, Eight of the twenty-one episodes are included in the volume. The remaining eleven episodes of the season were released on the Volume Nine DVD box set in Region 1 on December 13,2011, two other episodes were released independently on DVD. Production for the season began in 2008, during the airing of the seventh season. The season was produced by series regulars Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan. The showrunners for the season were Hentemann and Callaghan, who replaced Goodman and Sheridan. Spencer Porter received his first writing credit for the series, former recurring writers Kirker Butler and Gary Janetti returned to the series, with Butler leaving immediately afterward to work on The Cleveland Show. Matt Fleckenstein, who wrote two episodes for the show, left the series before the beginning of the eighth season, joseph Lee received his first directing credit for the series. Dominic Bianchi, Greg Colton, John Holmquist, Brian Iles, Jerry Langford, Pete Michels, James Purdum, Cyndi Tang, blue Harvest director Dominic Polcino briefly returned to the series to direct the episodes sequel, entitled Something, Something, Something, Dark Side. Former recurring director Mike Kim left the series, the main cast consisted of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and Mike Henry. Several new characters were introduced in season eight and he was voiced by The Cleveland Show cast member Kevin Michael Richardson. During the sixth season, episodes of Family Guy were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, series creator and executive producer Seth MacFarlane sided with the Writers Guild and participated in the strike until its conclusion. Because of this the season consisted entirely of hold-overs. Road to the Multiverse was the first episode to be produced and aired after the strike ended, the season included a banned episode, entitled Partial Terms of Endearment for the first time since season threes When You Wish Upon a Weinstein. The episode centered on Lois becoming a mother and being conflicted over whether or not to abort her best friends baby

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Larry (left) and Steve (right) as they appeared in Larry & Steve (1997), an animated short directed by Seth MacFarlane. Larry and Steve would form the basis for the Family Guy characters of Peter and Brian, respectively.